We are pleased to welcome Scott Koeneman, PsyD, to the CPOS Board of Directors. Scott is a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Mend Center for Psychotherapy in Overland Park, KS. He specializes in helping men connect with their emotions, helping leaders in times of personal or professional crisis, therapy for therapists, issues of sexuality, and issues of faith and spirituality. Scott joined the board in 2026.
This recent book highlights the challenges in consulting to "traumatized organizations" - a state arising from "failed dependency" in the organizational setting. In the introduction, editor Earl Hopper suggests that "consultations to traumatized organizations are always disturbing to the consultant" (p. xxii) making countertransference an important aspect of data generation and analysis. The book is instructive for organizational researchers who negotiate similar dynamics in the doing of embedded or immersive research. The book features contributions from an international group of analysts and consultants who draw from a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives. Each chapter focuses on a dimension of organizational life in an organizational setting (e.g. behavioral health, correctional, corporate, academic) characterized by traumatic experience.